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Avid announces that Sky Deutschland, the pay-TV broadcaster in Germany and Austria, has significantly expanded its investment in the MediaCentral Platform. Now, with the most open and integrated platform comprising solutions from the Avid Media, Storage and Artist Suites, Sky’s news and sports production teams are empowered with individual products at every stage of the workflow to create, collaborate, distribute, optimize and monetize its content.. Recognizing the need to update its infrastructure to meet the demands of today’s fast-turnaround, high-quality…
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This article is provided by Gary Zandstra.com. As I’m sure is the case with many of you, my life is quite hectic right now, packed beyond capacity with things to do. Most of them are worthy things that I want and/or need to do, but they keep me hopping. In response, I’ve chosen a very simple motto: “Simplify.” I plan to live by this simple (pun intended) maxim through the end of the year—at least. Simply (pun intended again),…
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Acustica Audio has unveiled its latest product, the Coral mastering channel strip. The basic concept behind Coral and Coral REEF mastering bundle was a transparent audio processor. Mastering wild-band EQ has an unique design including four EQ bands and two filters section with gentle slopes and sub-Bessel configuration. Chimera mastering compressor is also a unique mastering processor, thanks to the high number of rectifiers in detector section, but also due to applied soft-clipping strategy in order to preserve transients from…
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Softube announces the availability of Volume 1 — a plugin bundle available both as perpetual licenses and as a subscription package that includes a 90-minute tutorial video with Ryan West (Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West) — as of November 3… Volume 1 was compiled by identifying the 11 most common situations in music production, such as creating drum machine and synth tracks, recording and mixing electric guitar, vocals or other acoustic instruments, and then adding the plugins needed to solve them.…
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Symetrix announces Prism 0x0, the latest in the company’s Prism series of Dante-enabled DSPs. Offering expansion via 64 channels of bidirectional Dante networking, the new Prism 0x0 delivers cost-effective processing, mixing, and routing for Dante-enabled endpoints. Used as the DSP core of a Dante network, or as a DSP co-processor, Prism 0x0 is suited for applications requiring advanced signal processing coupled with a network audio interface. The Prism 0x0 is identical to the other Prism DSPs (and to Symetrix Radius…
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Synthax, the Americas distributor for RME, announces the new MADIface Pro desktop interface. The new MADIface Pro retains the design aesthetics of RME’s Babyface Pro interface with its integrated XLR and analog I/O’s, but replaces the ADAT I/O with a MADI port. The result is 64 channels of audio on a single cable housed in a compact form factor that fits in one’s laptop computer bag. In terms of basic functionality, the MADIface Pro offers two analog mic/line XLR inputs,…
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Brad Haehnel, working from his Noise Alchemy studio in Hollywood, has scored numerous hit films including Little Miss Sunshine, The Lego Movie, and the Academy Award-winning Life of Pi. The veteran engineer, who began his career in Toronto over 25 years ago, understands that technology has to be transparent to the creative process, and for the last year or more, that’s meant using RedNet Dante-networked audio converters and interfaces from Focusrite as the backbone of his signal flow. To date,…
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As of November 2016, Bill Evans will have a PhD in music technology from Manchester Metropolitan University/Glasgow University for an innovative new model of music production called Belexes. Belexes is a virtual audio workstation (VAD) that uses Volumetric Haptic Display (VHD) t0 project 3D objects into space to create a customized user interface that users can touch and use in space. While Evans’ head may be floating around in the future, his heart and hands are firmly grounded in the…
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This article is provided by EarLevel Engineering. Most people who’ve looked at digital audio before know about the Nyquist theorem. If you sample an analog signal at a rate of at least twice its highest frequency component, you can convert it back to analog, passing through a low-pass filter, and get back the same thing you put in. Exactly. Perfectly. The Real World In the real world, though, many people argue that analog “sounds better.” How can this be,…
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